Pondering a Hungarian National Holiday today...
October 23, 2015 – Hungarian National Holiday commemorating the 1956 Revolution So how does a revolution take place? College students mostly led the revolution in Poland and Hungary in 1956. I find that interesting because college students or young adults also were the ones to set up the aid to migrants in Hungary this past summer/early fall. Now – other people joined in but it was the youth that took the initiative. Why is that? Are the ‘youth’ more determined to make a difference? Do they see the cup as half full more than the older crowd? Nem tu dom (I don’t know) but I find it fascinating living in this part of the world. Now there were many factors that were part of the 1956 revolution and I’m sure a bit more complicated than my little mind can comprehend but I am interested…what makes us more doubtful and fearful as we age? I find that in my own life; perhaps more hesitant to tackle those things that were ‘nothing...